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      Using user-defined floating-point like <a href="../../../../../libs/multiprecision/doc/html/index.html" target="_top">Boost.Multiprecision</a>
      has a very high run-time cost.
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      To give some flavour of this:
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                floating-point type
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                speed Mflops
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                double
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                2727
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                __float128
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                35
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                multiprecision::float128
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                35
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                multiprecision::cpp_bin_float_quad
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                6
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